Historians differ in their opinions of when the Middle Ages began and ended, most sources define the Middle Ages as an historical period from 500 AD to 1450 AD. While there was a suppression of knowledge and learning, the Middle Ages was a period full of discovery and inventing.
1023
First paper money printed in China.
1045
Movable type printing by Bi Sheng in China
1050
Crossbow invented in France.
1182
Magnetic compass invented.
1200
Clothing buttons invented.
1202
The Hindu-Arabic numbering system introduced to the west by Italian mathematician, Fibonacci.
1249
Rodger Bacon invented his gunpowder formula.
1250
Gun invented in China.
Circa 1268 - 1289
Invention of eyeglasses.
1280
Mechanical clocks invented.
Circa 1285 - 1290
Windmills invented.
1295
Modern glass making begins in Italy.
1328
First sawmill.
1326
First mention of a handgun.
1366
Scales for weighing invented.
The 15th century gave birth to three major events: the beginning of the Renaissance Era (circa 1453) with a return to research and learning after the Dark Ages; the birth of the Age of Discovery with increased exploration and improved naval ships and navigation methods that created new trade routes and trade partners; and the birth of modern printing marked by 15th century master printer Johann Gutenberg's invention of movable type presses (1440) that made the inexpensive mass-printing of books possible.
1400
· First golf balls invented.
· The first piano called the Spinet invented.
1411
· Trigger invented.
1420
· Oil painting invented.
1421
· In Florence, hoisting gear invented.
1450
· Nicholas of Cusa creates spectacles of polished lenses for nearsighted persons.
1455
· Johannes Gutenberg invents printing press with metal movable type.
1465
· In Germany, drypoint engravings invented.
1475
· Muzzle-loaded rifles invented in Italy and Germany.
1486
· In Venice, the first known copyright granted.
1485
· Leonardo DaVinci designed the first parachute.
1487
· Bell chimes invented.
1492
· Leonardo da Vinci first to seriously theorize about flying machines.
· Martin Behaim invented the first map globe.
1494
· Whiskey invented in Scotland.
The 16th century was a time of unprecedented change, the very beginning of the modern era of science, a time of great exploration, religious and political urmoil, and extraordinary literature.
In 1543, Copernicus published his theory that the Earth was not the center of the universe, rather, the Earth and the other planets orbited around the Sun. Called the Copernican Revolution, his theory forever changed astronomy, and ultimately changed all of science.
During 16th century, advancements were made in the theories of mathematics, cosmography, geography and natural history. 16th century inventions related to the fields of engineering, mining, navigation and the military arts were prominent.
1500
· Wheel-lock musket invented.
· The first flush toilets appeared.
1510
· Leonardo DaVinci designs a horizontal water wheel.
· Pocket watch invented by Peter Henlein.
1513
· Urs Graf invents etching.
1565
· A graphite pencil invented by Conrad Gesner.
1568
· Bottled beer invented in London.
1569
· Gerard Mercator invents Mercator map projection.
1589
· Englishmen, William Lee invents a knitting machine called the stocking frame.
1590
· Dutchmen, Zacharias Janssen invents the compound microscope.
1593
· Galileo Galilei invents a water thermometer.
The 17th century, also referred to as the 1600s, spanned the years 1601 to 1700.
During the 17th century major changes in philosophy and science took place. Before the 17th century began, science and scientists were not truly recognized. In fact, at first people like the 17th century genius Isaac Newton were called natural philosophers, since there was no concept of the word scientist for most of the 17th century.
The intrusion of newly invented machines became part of the daily and economic lives of 17th century folk. During the 17th century, the science of chemistry developed from medieval alchemy, and the 17th century science of astronomy evolved from astology.
By the end of the 17th century, a scientific revolution had occurred and science had become an established mathematical, mechanical, and empirical body of knowledge. Galileo Galilei, René Descartes,Blaise Pascal, Isaac Newton, and others had become noted scientists.
1608
· Hans Lippershey invents the first refracting telescope.
1620
· The earliest human-powered submarine invented by Cornelis Drebbel.
1624
· William Oughtred invents a slide rule.
1625
· Frenchmen, Jean-Baptiste Denys invents a method for blood transfusion.
1629
· Giovanni Branca invents a steam turbine.
1636
· W. Gascoigne invents the micrometer.
1642
· Frenchmen, Blaise Pascal invents an adding machine.
1643
· Evangelista Torricelli invents the barometer.
1650
· Otto von Guericke invents a air pump.
1656
· Christian Huygens invents a pendulum clock.
1660
· Cuckoo clocks made in Furtwangen, Germany, in the Black Forest region.
1663
· James Gregory invents the first reflecting telescope.
1668
· Isaac Newton invents a reflecting telescope.
1670
· The first reference to a candy cane is made.
· Dom Pérignon invents Champagne.
1671
· Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz invents a calculating machine.
1674
· Anton Van Leeuwenhoek was the first to see and describe bacteria with a microscope.
1675
· Christian Huygens patents the pocket watch.
1676
· Robert Hooke invents the universal joint.
1679
· Denis Papin invents the pressure cooker.
1698
· Englishmen, Thomas Savery invents a steam pump.
· The 18th century (also referred to as the 1700s) began the firstIndustrial Revolution[/link">. Modern manufacturing began with steam engines replacing animal labor. The 18th century saw the widespread replacement of manual labor by new inventions and machinery.
· The 18th century was also part of the "The Age of Enlightenment", an historical period characterized by a change away from traditional religious sources of authority, and a move towards science and rational thought.
· The effects of 18th century enlightenment led to the American Revolutionary War and the French Revolution.The 18th century saw the spread of capitalism and the increased availability of printed materials.
1701· Jethro Tull invents the seed drill.
1709
· Bartolomeo Cristofori invents the piano.
1711
· Englishmen, John Shore invents the tuning fork.
1712
· Thomas Newcomen patents the atmospheric steam engine.
1717
· Edmond Halley invents the diving bell.
1722
· French C. Hopffer patents the fire extinguisher.
1724
· Gabriel Fahrenheit invents the first mercury thermometer.
1733
· John Kay invents the flying shuttle.
1745
· E.G. von Kleist invents the leyden jar, the first electrical capacitor.
An 18th Century Invention - James Hargreaves' Spinning Jenny
the 19th century lasted from 1801 through 1900 according to the Gregorian calendar. It is also referred to as the "1800s." The invention of useable electricity, steel, and petroleum products during the 19th century lead to a second industrial revolution (1865–1900), that featured the growth of railways and steam ships, faster and wider means of communication, and inventions with names we all know today.
· The 19th century was the age of machine tools - tools that made tools - machines that made parts for other machines, including interchangeable parts. The assembly line was invented during the 19th century, speeding up the factory production of consumer goods.
· The 19th century gave birth to the professional scientist, the word scientist was first used in 1833 by William Whewell. Inventors began to design practical internal combustion engines. The lightbulb, telephone, typewriter, sewing machine, all came of age during the 19th century.
1800· Frenchmen, J.M. Jacquard invents the Jacquard Loom.
· Count Alessandro Volta invents the battery.
1804
· Freidrich Winzer (Winsor) was the first person to patent gas lighting.
· Richard Trevithick, an English mining engineer, developed the first steam-powered locomotive. Unfortunately, the machine was too heavy and broke the very rails it was traveling on.
1809
· Humphry Davy invents the first electric light - the first arc lamp.
1810
· German, Frederick Koenig invents an improved printing press.
· Peter Durand invents the tin can.
1814
· George Stephenson designs the first steam locomotive.
· The first plastic surgery is performed in England.
· German, Joseph von Fraunhofer invents the spectrocope for the chemical analysis of glowing objects.
· Joseph Nicéphore Niépce was the first person to take a photograph. He took the picture by setting up a machine called the camera obscura in the window of his home in France. It took eight hours for the camera to take the picture.
1815
· Humphry Davy invents the miner's lamp.
1819
· Samuel Fahnestock patents a soda fountain.
· René Laënnec invents the stethoscope.
1823
· Mackintosh (raincoat) invented by Charles Mackintosh of Scotland.
1824
· Michael Faraday invents the first toy balloon.
· Englishmen, Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement.
1825
· William Sturgeon invented the electromagnet.
1827
· John Walker invents modern matches.
· Charles Wheatstone was the first person to coin the phrase microphone.
1829
· American, W.A. Burt invents a typewriter.
· Frenchmen, Louis Braille invents braille printing for the blind. William Austin Burt patents a typographer, a predecessor to the typewriter.
1830
· Frenchmen, Barthelemy Thimonnier invents a sewing machine.
1831
· American, Cyrus McCormick invents the first commercially successful reaper.
· Michael Faraday invents a electric dynamo.
1832
· The first patented stereoscope was invented by Charles Wheatstone in 1832 and patented in
1834
· Henry Blair patents a corn planter, he is the second black person to receive a U.S. patent.
· Jacob Perkins invents an early refrigerator type device - an ether ice machine.
1835
· Englishmen, Henry Talbot invents calotypephotography.
· Solymon Merrick patents the wrench.
· Englishmen, Francis Pettit Smith invents the propeller.
· Charles Babbage invents a mechanical calculator.
1836
· Francis Pettit Smith and John Ericcson co-invent the propellor.
· Samuel Colt invented the first revolver.
1837
· Samuel Morse invents the telegraph.
· English schoolmaster, Rowland Hill invents the postage stamp.
1838
· Samual Morse invents Morse Code.
I839
· American, Thaddeus Fairbanks invents platform scales.
· American, Charles Goodyear invents rubber vulcanization.
· Frenchmen, Louis Daguerre and J.N. Niepce co-invent Daguerreotype photography.
· Kirkpatrick Macmillan invents a bicycle.
· Welshmen, Sir William Robert Grove conceives of the first hydrogen fuel cell.
1840
· Englishmen, John Herschel invents the blueprint.
1841
· Samuel Slocum patents the stapler.
1842
· Joseph Dart builds the first grain elevator.
1843
· Alexander Bain of Scotland, invents the facsimile.
1844
· Englishmen, John Mercer invents mercerized cotton.
1845
· American, Elias Howe invents a sewing machine.
· Robert William Thomson patents the first vulcanised rubber pneumatic tire.
1846
· Dr. William Morton, a Massachusetts dentist, is the first to use anesthesia for tooth extraction.
1847
· Hungarian, Ignaz Semmelweis invents antisceptics.
1848
· Waldo Hanchett patents the dental chair.
1849
· Walter Hunt invents the safety pin.
1850
· Joel Houghton was granted the first patent for a dishwasher.
1851
· Isaac Singer invents a sewing machine.
1852
· Jean Bernard Léon Foucault invents gyroscope.
· Henri Giffard builds an airship powered by the first aircraft engine - an unsuccessful design.
1853
· George Cayley invents a manned glider.
1854
· John Tyndall demonstrates the principles of fiber optics.
1855
· Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine motor.
· Georges Audemars invents rayon.
1856
· Louis Pasteur invents pasteurisation.
1857
· George Pullman invents the Pullman Sleeping Car for train travel.
1858
· Hamilton Smith patents the rotary washing machine.
· Jean Lenoir invents an internal combustion engine.
1861
· Elisha Otis patents elevator safety brakes, creating a safer elevator.
· Pierre Michaux invents a bicycle.
· Linus Yale invents the Yale lock or cylinder lock.
1862
· Richard Gatling patents the machine gun.
· Alexander Parkes invents the first man-made plastic.
1866
· Alfred Nobel invents dynamite.
· J. Osterhoudt patents the tin can with a key opener.
· Englishmen Robert Whitehead invents a torpedo.
1867
· Christopher Scholes invents the first practical and moderntypewriter.
1868
· George Westinghouse invents air brakes.
· Robert Mushet invents tungsten steel.
· J P Knight invents traffic lights.
1872
· J.S. Risdon patents the metal windmill.
· A.M. Ward issues the first mail-order catalog.
1873
· Joseph Glidden invents barbed wire.
1874
· American, C. Goodyear, Jr. invents the shoe welt stitcher.
1876
· Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone.
· Nicolaus August Otto invents the first practical four-stroke internal combustion engine.
· Melville Bissell patents the carpet sweeper.
1877
· Thomas Edison invents the ylinder phonograph or tin foil phonograph.
· Eadweard Muybridge invents the first moving pictures.
1878
· Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was the first person to invent a practical and longer-lasting electic lightbulb.
1880
· The British Perforated Paper Company invents a form of toilet paper.
· Englishmen, John Milne invents the modern seismograph.
1881
· Alexander Graham Bell invents the first crude metal detector.
· David Houston patents the roll film for cameras.
· Edward Leveaux patents the automatic player piano.
1884
· George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film.
· Frenchmen, H. de Chardonnet invents rayon.
· Lewis Edson Waterman invents the first practical fountain pen.
· James Ritty invents the first working, mechanical cash register.
· Charles Parson patents the steam turbine.
1885
· Harim Maxim invents the machine gun.
· Karl Benz invents the first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion v engine.
· Gottlieb Daimler invents the first gas-engined motorcycle.
1886
· Josephine Cochrane invents the dishwasher.
· Gottlieb Daimler builds the world's first four-wheeled motor vehicle.
· John Pemberton invents Coca Cola.
1887
· German, Heinrich Hertz invents radar.
· Rowell Hodge patents barbed wire.
· Emile Berliner invents the gramophone.
· F.E. Muller and Adolph Fick invent the first wearable contact lenses.
1888
· Marvin Stone patents the spiral winding process to manufacture the first paper drinking straws.
· John Boyd Dunlop patents a commercially successful pneumatic tire.
· Nikola Tesla invents the AC motor and transformer.
1889
· Joshua Pusey invents the matchbook.
· Sir James Dewar and Sir Frederick Abel co-invent Cordite - a type of smokeless gunpowder.
1891
· Jesse W. Reno invents the escalator.
1892
· Rudolf Diesel invents the diesel-fueled internal combustion engine.
· Sir James Dewar invents the Dewar flask or vacuum flask.
1893
· American, W.L. Judson invents the zipper.
· Edward Goodrich Acheson invents carborundum.
1895
· Lumiere Brothers invent a portable motion-picture camera, film processing unit and projector called the Cinematographe. Lumiere Brothers using their Cinematographe are the first to present a projected motion picture to an audience of more that one person.
1896
· American, H. O'Sullivan invents the rubber heel.
1898
· Edwin Prescott patents the roller coaster.
· Rudolf Diesel receives patent #608,845 for an "internal combustion engine" the Diesel engine.
1899
· I.R. Johnson patents the bicycle frame.
· John Thurman patents the motor-driven vacuum cleaner.
A 19th Century Invention - The Typewriter A 19th Century Invention - The Typewriter
Technology, science, and inventions have progressed at an accelerated rate during the hundred years of the 20th century, more so than any other century.
We began the 20th century with the infancy of airplanes, automobiles, and radio, when those inventions dazzled us with their novelty and wonder.
We end the 20th century with spaceships, computers, cell phones, and the wireless Internet all being technologies we can take for granted.
I900
· The zeppelin invented by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin.
· Charles Seeberger redesigned Jesse Reno's escalator and invented the modern escalator.
1901
· King Camp Gillette invents the double-edged safety razor.
· The first radio receiver, successfully received a radio transmission.
· Hubert Booth invents a compact and modern vacuum cleaner.
1902
· Willis Carrier invents the air conditioner.
· The lie detector or polygraph machine is invented by James Mackenzie.
· The birth of the Teddy Bear.
· George Claude invented neon light.
1903
· Edward Binney and Harold Smith co-invent crayons.
· Bottle-making machinery invented by Michael J. Owens.
· The Wright brothers invent the first gas motored and manned airplane.
· Mary Anderson invents windshield wipers.
· William Coolidge invents ductile tungsten used in lightbulbs.
1904
· Teabags invented by Thomas Suillivan.
· Benjamin Holt invents a tractor.
· John A Fleming invents a vacuum diode or Fleming valve.
1905
· Albert Einstein published the Theory of Relativity and made famous the equation, E = mc2.
· Mary Anderson receives a patent for windshield wipers.
1906
· William Kellogg invents Cornflakes.
· Lewis Nixon invents the first sonar like device.
· Lee Deforest invents electronic amplifying tube (triode).
1907
· Leo Baekeland invents the first synthetic plastic called Bakelite.
· Color photography invented by Auguste and Louis Lumiere.
· The very first piloted helicopter was invented by Paul Cornu.
1908
· The gyrocompass invented by Elmer A. Sperry.
· Cellophane invented by Jacques E. Brandenberger.
· Model T first sold.
· J W Geiger and W Müller invent the geiger counter.
· Fritz Haber invents the Haber Process for making artificial nitrates.[/liu]
1909
· Instant coffee invented by G. Washington.
1910
· Thomas Edisondemonstrated the first talking motion picture.
· Georges Claude displayed the first neon lamp to the public on December 11, 1910, in Paris.
1911
· Charles Franklin Kettering invents the first automobile electrical ignition system.
1912
· Motorized movie cameras invented, replaced hand-cranked cameras.
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· The first tank patented by Australian inventor De La Mole.
· Clarence Crane created Life Savers candy in 1912.
1913
· The crossword puzzle invented by Arthur Wynne.
· The Merck Chemical Company patented, what is now know as, ecstasy.
· Mary Phelps Jacob invents the bra.
· Gideon Sundback invented the modern zipper.
1914
· Garrett A. Morgan invents the Morgan gas mask.
1915
· Eugene Sullivan and William Taylor co-invented Pyrex in New York City.
1916
· Radio tuners invented, that received different stations.
· Stainless steel invented by Henry Brearly.
1917
· Gideon Sundback patented the modern zipper (not the first zipper).
1918
· The superheterodyne radio circuit invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong. Today, every radio or television set uses this invention.
· Charles Jung invented fortune cookies.
1919
· The pop-up toaster invented by Charles Strite.
· Short-wave radio invented.
· The flip-flop circuit invented.
· The arc welder invented.
1920
· The tommy gun patented by John T Thompson.
· The Band-Aid (pronounced 'ban-'dade) invented by Earle Dickson.
1921
· Artificial life begins -- the first robot built.
· John Larson invented the lie detector.
1922
· Insulin invented by Sir Frederick Grant Banting.
· The first 3-D movie (spectacles with one red and one green lens) is released.
1923
· Garrett A. Morgan invents a traffic signal.
· The television or iconoscope (cathode-ray tube) invented by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin.
· John Harwood invented the self-winding watch.
· Clarence Birdseye invents frozen food.
1924
· The dynamic loudspeaker invented by Rice and Kellogg.
· Notebooks with spiral bindings invented.
1925
· The mechanical television a precursor to the modern television, invented by John Logie Baird.
1926
· Robert H. Goddard invents liquid-fueled rockets.
1927
· Eduard Haas III invents PEZ candy.
· JWA Morrison invents the first quartz crystal watch.
· Philo Taylor Farnsworth invents a complete electronic TV system.
· Technicolor invented.
· Erik Rotheim patents an aerosol can.
· Warren Marrison developed the first quartz clock.
· Philip Drinker invents the iron lung.
1928
· Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
· Bubble gum invented by Walter E. Diemer.
· Jacob Schick patented the electric shaver.
1929
· American, Paul Galvin invents the car radio.
· Yo-Yo re-invented as an American fad.
1930
· Scotch tape patented by 3M engineer, Richard G. Drew.
· The frozen food process patented by Clarence Birdseye.
· Wallace Carothers and DuPont Labs inventsneoprene.
· The "differential analyzer", or analog computer invented by Vannevar Bush at MIT in Boston.
· Frank Whittle and Dr Hans von Ohain both invent ajet engine.
1931
· Harold Edgerton invented stop-action photography.
· Germans Max Knott and Ernst Ruska co-invent theelectron microscope.
1932
· Polaroid photography invented by Edwin Herbert Land.
· The zoom lens and the light meter invented.
· Carl C. Magee invents the first parking meter.
· Karl Jansky invents the radio telescope.
1933
· Frequency modulation (FM radio) invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong.
· Stereo records invented.
· Richard M. Hollingshead builds a prototype drive-in movie theater in his driveway.
1934
· Englishmen, Percy Shaw invents cat eyes or roads reflectors.
· Charles Darrow claims he invented the game Monopoly.
· Joseph Begun invents the first tape recorder for broadcasting - first magnetic recording.
1935
· Wallace Carothers and DuPont Labs invents nylon ( polymer 6.6.)
· The first canned beer made.
· Robert Watson-Watt patented radar.
1936
· Bell Labs invents the voice recognition machine.
· Samuel Colt patents the Colt revolver.
1937
· Chester F. Carlson invents the photocopier.
· The first jet engine is built.
1938
· The ballpoint pen invented by Ladislo Biro.
· Strobe lighting invented.
· LSD was synthesized on November 16, 1938 by Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann of Sandoz Laboratories.
· Roy J. Plunkett invented tetrafluoroethylene polymers or Teflon.
· Nescafe or freeze-dried coffee invented.
· The first working turboprop engine.
1939
· Igor Sikorsky invents the first successful helicopter.
· The electron microscope invented.
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1940
· Dr William Reich invents the orgone accumulator.
· Peter Goldmark invents modern color televisionsystem.
· Karl Pabst invents the jeep.
1941
· Konrad Zuse's Z3, the first computer controlled by software.
· Aerosol spray cans invented by American inventors, Lyle David Goodloe and W.N. Sullivan.
· Enrico Fermi invents the neutronic reactor.
1942
· John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry built the first electronic digital computer.
· Mueller designs a turboprop engine.
1943
· Synthetic rubber invented.
· Richard James invents the slinky.
· James Wright invent silly putty.
· Swiss chemist, Albert Hofmann discovered the hallucinogenic properties of LSD.
· Emile Gagnan and Jacques Cousteau invent the aqualung.
1944
· The kidney dialysis machine invented by Willem Kolff.
· Synthetic cortisone invented by Percy Lavon Julian.
1945
· Vannevar Bush proposes hypertext.
· The atomic bomb invented.
1946
· The microwave oven invented by Percy Spencer.
1947
· British/Hungarian scientist, Dennis Gabor, developed the theory of holography.
· Mobile phones first invented. Although cell phones were not sold commercially until 1983.
· Bardeen, Brattain, and Shockley invent thetransistor.
· Earl Silas Tupper patented the Tupperware seal.
1948
· The Frisbee ® invented by Walter Frederick Morrison and Warren Franscioni.
· Velcro ® invented by George de Mestral.
· Robert Hope-Jones invented the Wurlitzer jukebox.
1949
· Cake mix invented.
1950
· The first credit card (Diners) invented by Ralph Schneider.
1951
· Super glue invented.
· Power steering invented by Francis W. Davis.
· Charles Ginsburg invented the first video tape recorder (VTR).
1952
· Mr Potato Head patented.
· The first patent for bar code issued to inventors Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver.
· The first diet soft drink sold.
· Edward Teller and team build the hydrogen bomb.
1953
· Radial tires invented.
· The first musical synthesizer invented by RCA.
· David Warren invented the black box - flight recorder.
· Transistor radio invented by Texas Instruments.
1954
· Oral contraceptives invented - the pill.
· The first nonstick teflon pan produced.
· The solar cell invented by Chaplin, Fuller and Pearson.
· Ray Kroc started McDonalds.
1955
· Tetracycline invented.
· Optic fiber invented.
1956
· The first computer hard disk used.
· The hovercraft invented by Christopher Cockerell.
· Bette Nesmith Graham invented "Mistake Out," later renamed Liquid Paper, to paint over mistakes made with a typewriter.
1957
· Fortran (computer language) invented.
1958
· The computer modem invented.
· Gordon Gould invents the laser.
· The Hula Hoop invented by Richard Knerr and Arthur "Spud" Melin.
· The integrated circuit invented by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.
1959
· The internal pacemaker invented by Wilson Greatbatch.
· Barbie Doll invented.
· Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce both invent the microchip.
1960
· The halogen lamp invented.
1961
· Valium invented.
· The nondairy creamer invented.
1962
· The audio cassette invented.
· The fiber-tip pen invented by Yukio Horie.
· Spacewar, the first computer video game invented.
· Dow Corp invents silicone breast implants.
1963
· The video disk invented.
1964
· Acrylic paint invented.
· Permanent-press fabric invented.
· BASIC (an early computer language) is invented by John George Kemeny and Tom Kurtz.
1965
· Astroturf invented.
· Soft contact lenses invented.
· NutraSweet invented.
· The compact disk invented by James Russell.
· Kevlar invented by Stephanie Louise Kwolek.
1966
· Electronic Fuel injection for cars invented.
1967
· The first handheld calculator invented.
1968
· The computer mouse invented by Douglas Engelbart.
· The first computer with integrated circuits made.
· Robert Dennard invented RAM (random access memory).
1969
· The arpanet (first internet) invented.
· The artificial heart invented.
· The ATM invented.
· The bar-code scanner is invented.
The 70s began the age of the practical computer made possible by the invention of the floppy disk and the microprocessor that occurred during the 70s.
1970· The daisy-wheel printer invented.
· The floppy disk invented by Alan Shugart.
1971
· The dot-matrix printer invented.
· The food processor invented.
· The liquid-crystal display (LCD) invented by James Fergason.
· The microprocessor invented by Faggin, Hoff and Mazor.
· VCR or videocassette invented.
1972
· The word processor invented.
· Pong first video game invented by Nolan Bushnell.
· Hacky Sack invented by John Stalberger and Mike Marshall.
1973
· Gene splicing invented.
· The ethernet (local computer network) invented by Robert Metcalfe and Xerox.
· Bic invents the disposable lighter.
1975
· The laser printer invented.
· The push-through tab on a drink can invented.
1976
· The ink-jet printer invented.
1977
· Magnetic resonance imaging invented by Raymond V. Damadian.
1978
· Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston invented the VisiCalcspreadsheet.
· The artificial heart Jarvik-7 invented by Robert K. Jarvik.
1979
· Cell phones invented.
· Cray supercomputer invented by Seymour Cray.
· Walkman invented.
· Scott Olson invents roller blades.
· The post-it notes invented by Arthur Fry.
· Giorgio Fischer, a gynecologist from Rome, Italy, invents liposuction.
Many of the most popular consumer products still around today were invented in the 80s for example: cell phones and home computers.
The 80s saw the rise of the multi-national corporations, while the growth rate during the 80s was 3.2% per year, the highest 9 year rate in American history, a complex combination of causes (economic, financial, legislative and regulatory) led to the extraordinary number of bank failures in the 80s. And a new definition of the expression "corporate greed" was found.
1980
· The hepatitis-B vaccine invented.
1981
· MS-DOS invented.
· The first IBM-PC invented.
· The scanning tunneling microscope invented by Gerd Karl Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer.
1982
· Human growth hormone genetically engineered.
1983
· The Apple Lisa invented.
· Soft bifocal contact lens invented.
· First Cabbage Patch Kids sold.
· Programmer Jaron Lanier first coins the term "virtual reality".
1984
· The CD-ROM invented.
· The Apple Macintosh invented.
1985
· Windows program invented by Microsoft.
1986
· A high-temperature super-conductor invented by J. Georg Bednorz and Karl A. Muller.
· Synthetic skin invented by G. Gregory Gallico, III.
· Fuji introduced the disposable camera.
1987
· The first 3-D video game invented.
· Disposable contact lenses invented.
1988
· Digital cellular phones invented.
· The RU-486 (abortion pill) invented.
· Doppler radar invented by Christian Andreas Doppler.
· Prozac invented at the Eli Lilly Company by inventor Ray Fuller.
· The first patent for a genetically engineered animal is issued to Harvard University researchers Philip Leder and Timothy Stewart.
· Ralph Alessio and Fredrik Olsen received a patent for the Indiglo nightlight. The bluish green light is used to illuminate the entire face of a watch.
1989
· High-definition television invented.
The 90s saw the invention of the internet and the rise of Microsoft. The 90s saw the invention of genetic engineering, as well as cloning, and stem cell research.
1990
· The World Wide Web and Internet protocol (HTTP) and WWW language (HTML) created by Tim Berners-Lee.
1991
· The digital answering machine invented.
1992
· The smart pill invented.
1993
· The pentium processor invented.
1994
· HIV protease inhibitor invented.
1995
· The Java computer language invented.
· DVD (Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) invented.
1996
· Web TV invented.
1997
· The gas-powered fuel cell invented.
1998
· Viagra invented.
1999
· Scientists measure the fastest wind speed ever recorded on earth, 509 km/h(318 mph).
· Tekno Bubbles patented.
Modern Inventions of 2000
· The mystery of Ginger.
· Environmentally friendly transformer fluid from vegetable oils invented by T.V. Oommen.
· FluidSense infusion pump invented (automatic and standardized intravenous applicator).
Modern Inventions of 2001
· AbioCor artificial heart invented by Abiomed - the Abiocor represents groundbreaking medical miniaturization technology. Nuvaring birth control invented by Organon.
· Artificial liver invented by Dr. Kenneth Matsumura and Alin Foundation.
· Fuel cell bike invented by Aprilia.
· Self-cleaning windows invented by PPG Industries.
· On October 23, 2001 Apple Computers publicly announced their portable music digital player the iPod, created under project code name Dulcimer.
Modern Inventions of 2002
· Braille Glove invented by Ryan Patterson.
· Phone tooth invented by James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau.
· Nano-tex - nanotechnology wearable fabrics invented by Nano-tex LLC.
· Birth control patch invented by Ortho McNeil Pharmaceutical.
· Foveon Camera Chip invented by Richard Merrill.
· Date Rape Drug Spotter invented by Francisco Guerra.
· Solar Tower invented by Jorg Schlaich.
· Virtual keyboard invented by Canesta and VKB.
· ICOPOD invented by Sanford Ponder.
Modern Inventions of 2003
§ Optical Camouflage System invented by Susumu Tachi, Masahiko Inami, and Naoki Kawakami
§ Toyota's Hybrid Car
§ Ice Bike invented by Dan Hanebrink
§ New Toy Robots Max the robotic cat invented by Omron, LUCKY, THE ROVING ROBO-RAPTOR invented by Walt Disney Imagineering, and Sony builds Aibo a companion called Orio.
§ New Fabrics, Salmon Skin Leather invented by Claudia Escobar and Skini, and Luminex a glowing fabric invented by Luminex.
§ Java Log a log for your fireplace made from used coffee grinds and invented by Rod Sprules
§ Infrared Fever Screening System used in public buildings to scan for people with a high temperature from a fever or sars invented by Singapore Technologies Electronics and the Singapore Defense Science and Technology Agency
§ The No-Contact Jacket invented by Adam Whiton and Yolita Nugent, protects the wearer by electric shocking any attackers.
§ Popular Science Best of What's New 2003
Modern Inventions of 2004
· Adidas 1 are the thinking shoes with a built in microprocessor that decides how soft or firm support the wearer needs. Chosen by Popular Science magazine as the best recreation invention of 2004.
· Translucent Concrete developed by Hungarian architect Aron Losonczi and called LitraConand is based on a matrix of parallel optical glass fibers embedded into the concrete that can transmit light and color from the outside. However, this is not the only translucent concrete out there. Inventor Bill Price has been developing another variety.
· Ka-on or Flower Sound are plants that play music invented by the Japanese based Let's Corporation. Flowers bouquets will act as loudspeakers when placed in a special vase that has electronics hidden in the base.
· Intel Express Chipsets - Grantsdale and Alderwood are the code names of Intel's newest chips that will provide superior and inexpensive built-in sound and video capacities for the PC including the ability to do high definition video editing without additional computer cards.
· SonoPrep invented by bioengineer Robert Langer, is a device that will deliver medication by sound waves rather than injection. According to the Sontra Medical Corporation, SonoPrep's manufacturer: The small, battery-powered device applies low-frequency ultrasonic energy to the skin for 15 seconds. The ultrasound temporarily rearranges lipids in the skin, opening channels that let fluids be delivered or extracted. After about 24 hours, the skin returns to normal.
· Popular Science Best of What's New 2004
Modern Inventions of 2005
· YouTube - the online video sharing and viewing community - was invented in 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim. YouTube was named
Modern Inventions of 2008
New inventions of 2008 include: smog-earing cement, high altitude flying windmills, bionic contacts, pig-urine plastic.
Modern Inventions of 2009
New inventions of 2009 include: a new computer interface called the sixth sense, and a retinal implant for the blind.
· Inventors' Pick for Top Inventions of 2009
Modern Inventions of 2011
· New inventions of 2011 include: fabrics made from raw milk, a new kind of photography, an electronic bloodhound, the world's smallest ink jet printer.
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